"See that little stream? We could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it-a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind." -F. Scott ...

As the sun rose over the valley of the Somme River in northern France on the first of July a century ago, the soldiers of the British Empire began their charge on the entrenched Germans. It would be ...

BRITISH Commander-in-Chief Sir Douglas Haig called a halt to his army’s offensive near the Somme River in northwestern France, ending the epic Battle of the Somme on November 18, 1916. With the French ...

Being a less than gifted painter – "Michael has made a commendable effort" was the most flattering of my school reports for art – I am rarely tempted to reach for the watercolours. But this was my ...

On Dominion Day, 1916, Canadians awoke to headlines that told of a million shells being fired at the German positions on the Somme River in Picardy. On Monday, July 3, their papers reported that ...

On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then being ...

Musicians, painters and photographers all try to bring out the tranquil beauty of the River Somme, in northern France. It's an ideal destination for those who appreciate walks rich in history, thanks ...